Joseph Ridgeson
warravens
Imperium Eden
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Posted - 2016.02.03 18:12:00 -
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Howdy y'all.
I am a fanboy of this game. I went to EVE Vegas 2013, 2014, and 2015. I went full out on Jadek's lottery as a way to enjoy the game. Some things of note:
Unholy Legion of Darkstar Fanfiction
DUST University Fanfiction
Headshot with Sniper Rifle + PS Move
Giving myself a damn heart attack...
I have had a lot of fun with this game both while playing and doing things outside the game. I won't say I am the super fan, that crown is probably shared between Dennie and Jadek, but I like the game. More importantly, I liked what the game could have been. I like EVE from afar, I have said it a hundred times, and the idea of being able to play in New Eden without having to experience hours and hours of monotony in a FPS got my brain raring to go. But, sadly, I think another Joe said it best.
So DUST is going to die on May 30th, 2016. I am not exactly surprised because the game has been on death's door since Rouge Wedding based on player perception; "we can't do what we wanted to do" only after a year of release and with absolutely no information? Yup, that closed the door on DUST hard and I am still really quite upset about that. But the death of DUST isn't surprising, even without that singular incident. Not many people playing and the game has no growth opportunity. It happens to all games and is especially fast to those on a console.
But aside from the Rouge Wedding, this 'sudden' announcement has me pretty annoyed. Not because I wasn't expecting it but because I can only ask "how the hell long have you been planning this?" After all this push for more and more monetization methods (Warbarge, APEX suits, Quafe suits, re-roll quests, boxes-keys), was the entire plan to just pull the rug out?
I know it is a self-fulfilling prophecy; "DUST was always going to end, right?", CCP sells stuff in the meantime, CCP announces their end date, "WTF why didn't you tell us earlier?!" But this game has been on life-support for so damn long, a lot of which can be explained by that other Joe, that I can't help but think that this plan has been in the works for quite some time and we just paid into a game that you wouldn't be supporting in just a few months. Again, I see how screwed CCP is in this; no matter what happened, the second the lights were coming off, we would have said "why didn't you tell us sooner?!"
Moving on from that, I am flat out pissed off about the lack of information on how things have come about:
Right here. This, the statement of "everything applicable" was never ever changed. If this turns out to not be the case, it nearly turns out to be false advertising (not in a legal sense probably but enough for it to constitute being shady). I wouldn't be surprised if people bought into the game after FanFest 2014 simply because of that 'promise.' "What risk is there; CCP totally have my back." Naivety aside, it turns out to be a dickmove if that isn't the case. Maybe it will be, maybe not. With the announcement taking so stupidly long on what was going to be an obvious conclusion, I can't help but think we were held upside down and shaken vigorously for that filthy lucre.
Being a DUST 514 fan has been the most frustrating thing. And now that we can finally say "DUST is dead; long live DUST" without being pessimistic or making assumptions, I wonder how many of us are going to feel better. My hopes and dreams for DUST have finally been put to pasture, having to never wish for a situation that I secretly knew would never get better. Perhaps this new game will be better but I just don't care that much right now. I have said for a while that this was the official song of DUST 514 which feels really quite perfect now.
In a few years, will we look back to the game we all cared about as a "learning experience for a different game"? Nostalgia, forgetting the bad and remembering only the good? Perhaps in this 'new DUST' we will have some of the 2,500 players siting in lobbies talking about the differences like what happened with DUST and MAG? Hard to say but it was an experience to have played DUST.
From DUST you came and from dust you will return.
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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